Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Petitions will start circulating today for prospective Jubilee Committee candidates, as plans for the annual freshman affair get under way. Applications can be picked up today through Saturday in Dudley Hall, and tomorrow and Saturday in the Union...
...even the life of a wealthy, pampered dandy could not go undisturbed. Proust's father, a successful physician, was a Catholic; his mother, whom he adored and whose image dominated his life, was Jewish. When Marcel was 23, the Dreyfus affair split France, and the young man instinctively rushed to the defense of the Jewish captain. In one of the few political acts of his life, Proust circulated petitions for Dreyfus' release. The echoes of the affair rang in his novel years later; after the bigoted behavior of his aristocratic Parisian friends, Proust could never write long about...
...discipline, Proust had suffered from asthma. The illness was, he knew, at least partly "a nervous habit," and though it struck him severely through most of his adult life, he refused to submit to thoroughgoing treatment. Instead, he isolated himself in his cork-lined room. Stung by the Dreyfus affair and aroused to literary ambitions, he found himself "weary of insincerity and friendship, which are almost the same thing." After his mother's death in 1905, the shaken, 34-year-old Proust withdrew from society more & more...
...Party, concerned with a small boy's helpless integrity in face of an overpowering terror. Another, The Basement Room (recently made into a movie called The Fallen Idol), suggests the disastrous effect on a small boy of being made a responsible agent in an adult affair. A third, Brother, examines the troubles of a man who acts according to his principles, does his duty as a citizen, and gets another man killed. A fourth, A Chance for Mr. Lever, stacks everything in favor of the choice of sin by a middling good little man and notes his exhilaration after...
...even though he had been blamed for letting his dangerous patient run loose. What's more, he realizes that his wife is "all he has" and somehow finds his own case cured. Mixed up in the end of the film is the implication that Meredith's own affair blinded him to the condition of his patient which ended in tragedy...